Taddeo Alderotti and his pupils : two generations of Italian medical learning / Nancy G. Siraisi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Siraisi, Nancy G., author.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Princeton Legacy Library ; 5467

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alderotti, Taddeo, 1223-1295.

Alderotti, Taddeo.

Università di Bologna. Facoltà di medicina e chirurgia--History.

Università di Bologna.

Physicians--Italy--Bologna--Biography.

Physicians.

Medicine, Medieval--Italy--Bologna.

Medicine, Medieval.

Bologna (Italy)--Intellectual life.

Bologna (Italy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 461 p. )

Edition:

Princeton Legacy Library edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Taddeo Alderotti was the most celebrated professor of medicine at Bologna in the late thirteenth century. His teaching involved close attention not merely to medicine itself but to all the scientific and philosophical learning of the time. His pupils, in turn, included some of the leading learned physicians in Italy in the early fourteenth century. In a study of the professional thought and practice of these physicians, Nancy Siraisi shows how their intellectual and medical achievements were integrated with the social and institutional context within which they lived. Focusing specifically on Taddeo Alderotti and six of his pupils, the author treats what is known of their lives, their teaching activities, their learned writings, their medical practice, and their broader moral outlook. She pays particular attention to the theoretical concepts of meidcal learning, the relationship of medicine to natural philosophy, the correlation of medical theory to medical practice, and the role of the physician as a citizen.Na ncy G. Siraii is Professor of History at Hunter College of the City University of New York.Originally published in 1981.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations and Short Titles

A Note on Names and Orthography

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE. The Setting

CHAPTER TWO. The Men

CHAPTER THREE. Citizen-Physicians as Moral Philosophers and Men of Letters

CHAPTER FOUR. The Development of a Medical Curriculum

CHAPTER FIVE. The Nature of Medical Learning

CHAPTER SIX. The Uses of Philosophy: Reconciling the Philosophers and Physicians

CHAPTER SEVEN. Mind and Sense

CHAPTER EIGHT. Favorite Topics of Discussion: The Scholastic Questio as a Tool of Medical Teaching

CHAPTER NINE. The Practice of Medicine

CONCLUSION

Appendix One. Register of Questiones

Appendix Two. Works of Hippocrates and Galen Listed by Mondino de' Liuzzi and Bartolomeo da Varignana

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliography (p. 416-443) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691655581

0691655588

9780691198163

0691198160

OCLC:

1088348957